Competition seeks solutions for remote communities’ high energy costs

The Alaska Center for Energy and Power is reaching out to inventors and entrepreneurs to help find ways to reduce the high cost of generating electricity in remote communities around the state, located far off the grid. Officials with the University of Alaska Fairbanks-based center hope those solutions will come with proposals they’re soliciting for its second annual Microgrid Technology Competition.
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